On Photography by Susan Sontag
"In photography's early decades, photographs were expect to be idealized images. This is still the aim of most amateur photographers, for whom a beautiful photograph is a photograph of something beautiful. In recent decades, photography has succeeded in somewhat revising, for everybody, the definitions of what is beautiful and ugly." pg 28
Photography has always been used to showcase the beauty of the one photographed. In a way it was used to establish evidence of ones beauty in a youth and beauty obsessed culture. Even in today's society photography is used in magazines to show the readers what the idealized beauty is that society has created. Photography allows someone to encapsulate ones beauty for as long as the photo last. This grants the photographed person to memorialize their beauty and youth as both begin to fade with age. This ideal is ironic as photograph, eventually too, deteriorate and fade defeating the purpose of photographing oneself. This, I feel, definatly relates to my work as Im using photographs of a beautiful figure but destroying it as to ruin the purpose of the photos. This as allows me to dismantle the importance of beauty and youth by taking away the figure beauty.
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